Monster Stage 2 Clutch & 28lb Flywheel - Vibration in Clutch Pedal ?

I started this question in my other thread but decided to make a thread dedicated to it. Had a monster stage 2 clutch installed with the 28lb flywheel. Everything seems nice and smooth engagement and no more "clunk". I have noticed though that at the half-way point for the clutch pedal I get a vibration in the pedal. It almost feels like a buzzing or very fine vibration. If I hold the pedal half-way the vibration is constant. Seems to be only with mid to higher RPM's also. I'm new to the "single-mass" flywheel, so is this normal ?

I think you're over-analyzing due to being recently burned. I just had F1 LS7 clutch and 20lb lightweight flywheel installed. As lolly said, you can feel more of everything. The biggest change for me is being able to feel the pulsing of cylinder fire through the gas pedal. Not really feeling much different through the clutch pedal though.

The DM flywheel's very purpose of existence was to absorb vibrations. It's normal that you are experiencing more.

Hi BDV, I had a FAST 102 installed during the same session. I'm not sure whether it's the FAST or the lightweight flywheel, but the revs are really erratic when pushing the clutch in. The car needs to be tuned badly. Furthermore, I can't really stomp on it till the 500 mile break period is over. The current plan is to wait till the 500 miles are up, then go in and have it tuned. I'll really only be able to review it at that point.

I can tell you however that my builder/tuner thought all the parts looked good and said the install went really well. He did say that the "lightweight F1 chromoly" flywheel looked like an LS2 flywheel that had had 6 lbs drilled out of it.

I noticed today that I can put it in Neutral and rev it up and still get the same feeling in the clutch pedal when pushed in halfway. I wondered if it was the cylinder pulses being it is such a fine vibration. I don't feel anything in the gas pedal. FuzzyLogic mentioned flywheel bolts not being torqued properly... anyone have any thoughts on that ?

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OK, was out in the drive-way. Pressed clutch half-way and then played with the throttle and I could clearly feel how it was the cylinder pulses. So I guess this mystery is solved.

Now to diagnose the "Service Stability System" that started popping up, and had a P0420 code yesterday; CAT's seem to be working now according to my laptop. Never-ending....

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Why do I feel these pulses when the clutch is half-way in; seems I should feel them most when the clutch is completely engaged ?

I got my car back from the shop on Saturday, I too have a "vibration" in the clutch pedal, good to hear that it isn't something wrong. One question I had for you guys though, did you shim the new clutch at all? The mechanic said the instructions from Monster said not to, but he's a high-performance guy and he thinks it should be. The shifter is definitely stiffer going into all gears, especially reverse followed closely by 1st, he seemed to think shimming would help with that but wanted me to do the break-in first. On that topic they kept stressing that I had to drive the 1st 500 miles "like a little old lady" but damn is that hard to do! I've made it about 150 miles so far and don't know how much longer I can hold back!

I got my car back from the shop on Saturday, I too have a "vibration" in the clutch pedal, good to hear that it isn't something wrong. One question I had for you guys though, did you shim the new clutch at all? The mechanic said the instructions from Monster said not to, but he's a high-performance guy and he thinks it should be. The shifter is definitely stiffer going into all gears, especially reverse followed closely by 1st, he seemed to think shimming would help with that but wanted me to do the break-in first. On that topic they kept stressing that I had to drive the 1st 500 miles "like a little old lady" but damn is that hard to do! I've made it about 150 miles so far and don't know how much longer I can hold back!

FYI I went with the Monster stage 2 with 18lb flywheel.

I had the dealer install mine per Monster's instructions. If everything works without a shim why would we need to add one?

Hi BDV, I had a FAST 102 installed during the same session. I'm not sure whether it's the FAST or the lightweight flywheel, but the revs are really erratic when pushing the clutch in. The car needs to be tuned badly. Furthermore, I can't really stomp on it till the 500 mile break period is over. The current plan is to wait till the 500 miles are up, then go in and have it tuned. I'll really only be able to review it at that point.

I can tell you however that my builder/tuner thought all the parts looked good and said the install went really well. He did say that the "lightweight F1 chromoly" flywheel looked like an LS2 flywheel that had had 6 lbs drilled out of it.

I too have eratic idle issues with the FAST 102. Tuned by Frost is coming into town the end of this week to retune. Hopefully he fixes 'er up.

I too have eratic idle issues with the FAST 102. Tuned by Frost is coming into town the end of this week to retune. Hopefully he fixes 'er up.

I've seen some posts that this happens when you mate a stock LS2 90 TB to a 102 opening. The solution is purported to be an adaptor designed by VMax called the velocity ring. I'm curious to hear what Frost has to say.